Song For Marion (Paul Andrew Williams, 2012)

Not yet the swansong of Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave, which is just as well as they'd be going out with a whimper rather than a bang. He's a curmudgeon railing against the world and she is his dying wife, trying to stay spry to the last with a local old folks' choir. The irrepressibility of the well-wishing entourage will of course erode away the fortifications of his grumpiness before long, just as the resistance of the viewer is clinically targeted by singalongs which rely on the idea that pensioners doing Motorhead is intrinsically hilarious. A more cynical mind might suspect sanitised depictions of retirement homes and old age in this well-worn genre to be nothing more than propaganda, but it's really just preaching to the converted.

4/10